Deirdre A. O'Reilly wrote about unions and LO's.
Senge, as a part of a teleconference series through (I think PBS) starting
in December 93 had at least one or two companies that were unionized and
moving toward the LO.
In our organization it has been members of the union that have pushed the
concept! As a mater of fact two grievances were filed because management
refused to ok education expenditures for the Systems Thinking conferences.
Members of the union took on management a number of times from 1992 to the
present over the issues involving learning and of change. It was
interesting to hear management take the position "they the union are not
going to tell us what to do" as the organization kept looking for some
answers to growing organizational problems.
I've oversimplified the situation just to get around to saying, yes LO's
unions and the work to be done can be a match.
That is not to say that If management believes the way the work is
divided, paid for, categorized, etc should be changed that the union has
to agree with them. It does mean that using the five disciplines of the
LO (MM, PM, SV, TL and ST) can lead to some meaningful change.
Joe DiVincenzo
NEANY@aol.com
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